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• 10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

  Rachel Vincent

  Fate, Class, Periods

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• It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Baseball, Female

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• Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Llamas, Judging, Magnus Bane

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but- Clary: I'm going to bed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Spiritual, Mean, Simple

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unusual Things, Luck, Together

  "When “Things” Go Bump in the Mind" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. JUly 3, 2010.

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• Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Numbers, Income

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Eye, Light

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.134, Macmillan

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• Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Thinking, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”, p.23, Random House

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• Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons.

  Amy Trask

  Sports, Art, Opportunity

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• Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

  Lawrence M. Schoen

  Magic, Manipulation, Deliberate

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• What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Girl, Past, Men

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• I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Hopeful, Falcon

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Lying, Magic, Should

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• It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

  Laurie Colwin

  Happiness, Children, Hands

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• Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

  Della Reese

  Doing What You Love, Telling The Truth, Paid

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• The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.

  Lucy Worsley

  Father, War, Believe

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• I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Don't Believe, Extraordinary

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.283, Spectra

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• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

  Ally Carter

  Tails, Firsts, Stranger

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• Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

  Paul Klee

  Spiritual, Artist, Civilization

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• Life is a gift of God, of the God of Coincidence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Gift From God, Life Is

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• The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Real, Kids

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• Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.

  eL Seed

  Reading, Fate, Sometimes

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Holiday, Holy Days

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• Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

  Ruben Papian

  Thinking, Elements, Process

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